{"id":177825,"date":"2021-02-13T22:28:22","date_gmt":"2021-02-13T19:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/how-3-us-soldiers-survived-staring-into-the-face-of-death\/"},"modified":"2021-02-13T22:28:22","modified_gmt":"2021-02-13T19:28:22","slug":"how-3-us-soldiers-survived-staring-into-the-face-of-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/how-3-us-soldiers-survived-staring-into-the-face-of-death\/","title":{"rendered":"#How 3 US soldiers survived staring into the face of death"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a400e4a324df\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a400e4a324df\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/how-3-us-soldiers-survived-staring-into-the-face-of-death\/#%E2%80%98I_lost_my_foot_ankle_and_half_my_intestines\" >\u2018I lost my foot, ankle and half my intestines\u2019\u00a0<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/how-3-us-soldiers-survived-staring-into-the-face-of-death\/#%E2%80%98I_was_Saddam_Husseins_dentist\" >\u2018I was Saddam Hussein\u2019s dentist\u2019\u00a0<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/how-3-us-soldiers-survived-staring-into-the-face-of-death\/#%E2%80%98I_brought_soldiers_home_to_die\" >\u2018I brought soldiers home to die\u2019\u00a0<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#How 3 US soldiers survived staring into the face of death<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-nypost-small-post\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"231\" height=\"358\" alt=\"Walk in my combat boots\" class=\"wp-image-17312272 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/walk-in-my-combat-boots.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/walk-in-my-combat-boots.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/walk-in-my-combat-boots.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/walk-in-my-combat-boots.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=231 231w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/walk-in-my-combat-boots.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=462 462w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 231px\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Many Americans value the heroism of our troops during WWII and understand the horrors they faced in Vietnam.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But front-line experiences during the country\u2019s modern era of conflict are less known.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>James Patterson\u2019s new book, \u201cWalk in My Combat Boots\u201d (Little, Brown), out now, provides 45 first-person accounts from service members of all s<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a>es, young and old, men and women, infantry to high command, from the 1990s through today.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Compiled with the help of ex-Army Ranger Matt Eversmann and novelist Chris Mooney, Patterson\u2019s collection reminds us that the military\u2019s legacy of dedication carries on.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But also of the terrible toll on those who fight for their country. Here are three of those stories.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%98I_lost_my_foot_ankle_and_half_my_intestines\"><\/span>\u2018I lost my foot, ankle and half my intestines\u2019\u00a0<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><em><strong>Greg Stube, a Green Beret medic and instructor, trained students to treat combat injuries, then saw his charges off to war in Afghanistan. In 2006, he joined the fight, volunteering for Operation Medusa in the Panjwai Valley, where his unit\u2019s job was to \u201cflush out the bad guys\u201d \u2014 a stronghold of enemy fighters on a hill called Sperwan Ghar, near the Taliban birthplace. Here, he reveals what h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ened on day five of that conflict\u2026\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ten guys start to fight their way up to the hilltop. When they get to the other side of it, one of our Afghani counterparts steps on a mine. It blows off one of his legs and puts some holes in his chest.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As I work to get him packaged up to be evacuated I hear the voices in my headset growing more urgent. The gunfire suddenly gets even crazier. It seems as though our ten guys are about to be overrun.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m ordered to get in the weapons truck, with its heavy machine gun, and drive it up to the top of the hill to provide covering fire so our guys can withdraw.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I manage to get to the truck. I drive up the hill. There\u2019s an explosion.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m blown up, burned, and shot in a matter of moments.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Yet I\u2019m still conscious, so I can see what\u2019s happened. I\u2019ve lost half of my intestines. My right foot and ankle are missing, and I have major burns all over my body.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A bunch of guys rush over to me. One of them is a medic \u2014 a guy I flunked in one of the courses I taught. His name is Riley Stevens, and he had to go all the way back through school a second time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I haven\u2019t been face-to-face with him since flunking him way back when.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" alt=\"Green Beret medic instructor Greg Stube with his son, Greg Stube Jr., lived to tell his horrifying tale.\" class=\"wp-image-17312294 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/greg-stubbe-son.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/greg-stubbe-son.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/greg-stubbe-son.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/greg-stubbe-son.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/greg-stubbe-son.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2000 2000w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Green Beret medic instructor Greg Stube with his son, Greg Stube Jr., lived to tell his horrifying tale.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy of Greg Stube <\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cHey,\u201d I say, my voice weak. \u201cNo hard feelings, right?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I watch him go to work on me.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA remotely detonated IED got you,\u201d he says. \u201cI\u2019ve called in a medevac.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Two choppers arrive to clear the area for the medevac. They\u2019re im<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>tely attacked by rocket-propelled grenades. Luckily, they miss, but the choppers have to retreat because the fighting is too intense. It\u2019s too risky for them to stay.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>An hour later, another pair of choppers \u2014 two Apaches \u2014 fly in and, like angry wasps, attack the bad guys. They work so hard \u2014 and risk so much \u2014 to kill them all.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Later, I\u2019ll be told that these two brave Apache pilots, upon hearing that a Green Beret was down, decided to do whatever it took to wipe out the enemy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Two hours from when I\u2019m injured, I\u2019m on a medevac. Behind the haze of morphine, before I go unconscious, my thoughts shift back to Riley Stevens, the man who just saved my life.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When I lay wounded on the battlefield and my teammates approached me to help, my first thought was, \u201cThere\u2019s no way these chuckleheads can save my life. They have no idea how to deal with this kind of trauma. And whose fault was that? It was mine.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I wasn\u2019t able to see the greatness in Riley until there was something in it for me. That greatness was in him the whole time. I could have mentored him better. I could have brought him closer instead of stiff-arming him away, just allowing him to fail.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Later on, he\u2019ll be killed in Afghanistan.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m unconscious when I arrive at Kandahar.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Once the surgeons stabilize me, they spend 18 hours doing vascular surgery to reattach my foot and ankle. Most of my intestines are already gone, but they manage to put my abdomen back together. I have to wear a colostomy bag.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Thirty percent of my body, I\u2019m told, is covered with third-degree burns.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When the IED went off, the doctors explain, it pushed diesel fuel and rocket propellant and other stuff into me, and it just continued to burn, burn, burn.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Because of the intestinal loss, I can\u2019t control my bowels. I have yellow diarrhea constantly running into my third-degree burns. Anywhere between 15 to 20 times a day I have people I don\u2019t know coming into the room to wipe my ass for me.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>These people take care of me in ways I\u2019ve never taken care of anyone else. They say it\u2019s their job, but I can see the genuine love and compassion in their actions. The one thing people always told me to do was never surrender.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But I have to surrender to this kind of service, to this kind of love and compassion, if I\u2019m going to make it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%98I_was_Saddam_Husseins_dentist\"><\/span>\u2018I was Saddam Hussein\u2019s dentist\u2019\u00a0<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><strong><em>Ron Silverman, a brigadier <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a> who started his career as a dentist, was stationed at Camp Victory, Saddam Hussein\u2019s Baghdad palace that the US Army turned into its headquarters, after an Iraqi court convicted the captured strongman of crimes against humanity. When Hussein cracked a tooth, Silverman says he jumped at the chance to treat him personally in 2006\u2026\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHello,\u201d Saddam says.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m surprised at how short he is \u2014 5\u20198\u201d,\u2002maybe. He\u2019s well groomed and holding a Quran.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, I know a little Arabic, and it\u2019s clear he knows English.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He starts talking about the history of the Middle East, how Iraq was won, the king before him. It\u2019s not so much a discussion as a lecture.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When I was an undergraduate at the University of Wisconsin, my major was ancient history. I know a lot about the Middle East. When Saddam says something that\u2019s wrong, I tell him he\u2019s wrong.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow do you know?\u201d he asks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" alt=\"As Silverman (left) treated Hussein (inset) for a cracked tooth, the strongman said he had no weapons of mass destruction.\" class=\"wp-image-17312306 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/silverman-hussein.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/silverman-hussein.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/silverman-hussein.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/silverman-hussein.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/silverman-hussein.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2000 2000w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>As Silverman (left) treated Hussein (inset) for a cracked tooth, the strongman said he had no weapons of mass destruction.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy of Ron Silverman; Getty Images <\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI studied this stuff.\u201d He realizes I know what I\u2019m talking about and stops lecturing me.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have a mistress?\u201d he asks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m married.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re too happy,\u201d he says. \u201cYou must have a mistress someplace.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I get out of here, I\u2019m going to get myself a new wife, another wife. A younger one.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s with the Quran?\u201d I ask. \u201cYou\u2019re not religious.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, I know. But it\u2019s good for show.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The next day we meet, Saddam blurts out, \u201cDo you think I killed a lot of people?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, you did.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He pauses for a moment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re right, I did,\u201d he says. \u201cBut if you want to control this country, you have to kill a lot of people.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I ask him, \u201cWhat\u2019s the story about weapons of mass destruction?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wanted them.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid you get them?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo why did you kind of lead everybody on that you had weapons of mass destruction?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, that was for the Iranians. I never thought you, the Americans, would believe it.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the last conversation I have with him. He doesn\u2019t come back for the next appointment because the Iraqis hang him.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%98I_brought_soldiers_home_to_die\"><\/span>\u2018I brought soldiers home to die\u2019\u00a0<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><em><strong>Jodi Michelle Pritchard, an Air Force flight nurse, tells how she was sent to Iraq in 2003 to care for injured service members as they were flown from the battlefield\u2026<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>I have my personal bag with me. It contains my death letter, my final message to my loved ones. I hope to God I don\u2019t need it. We\u2019re flying to Baghdad to collect our patients: wounded soldiers, children, even prisoners.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGunfire, eleven o\u2019clock.\u201d I can hear it, the gunfire happening outside. The plane is spiraling \u2014 Bam, we\u2019re on the ground, pulling back the engines.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We load the patients and take off. Ten of our twenty patients are on stretchers \u2014 some of them are all shot up, and some have lost limbs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One soldier is missing half of his face. He looks up at me and says, \u201cMa\u2019am, I need to know when this plane\u2019s going to land. I need to know when I can get back to Iraq.\u201d Ninety-nine percent of our patients want to go back to the battlefield. Even the ones going home to die.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That same year, our commander explains our next mission.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" alt=\"Jodi Michelle Pritchard and family.\" class=\"wp-image-17312312 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/jodi-michelle-pritchard.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/jodi-michelle-pritchard.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/jodi-michelle-pritchard.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/jodi-michelle-pritchard.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/jodi-michelle-pritchard.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2000 2000w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Jodi Michelle Pritchard with her parents.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe have three patients who are pretty sick. They\u2019re going home to die. You need to keep them alive until you get to Walter Reed.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We arrive at the hospital, get our patients sorted out inside, and return to the bus to retrieve our equipment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I feel a tug on my flight suit. I turn and see a little girl with curly hair. She\u2019s 5, maybe 6. I also notice a frantic woman standing directly behind her.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs this your mom?\u201d I ask the girl.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She nods. \u201cDid you bring my daddy home?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I get down on one knee. \u201cWhat\u2019s your daddy\u2019s name, sweetheart?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She tells me.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Her father is one of the patients I brought home to die.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI did,\u201d I say, feeling sick all over.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs he OK?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I glance at the woman. It\u2019s obvious she hasn\u2019t seen her husband yet but is fully aware of his grave condition.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCan I see him?\u201d the girl asks me. \u201cCan I tell him I love him?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSweetheart,\u201d I say, \u201cyou\u2019ll be able to go in to see him soon.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And then I lose it. The woman does, too. I can\u2019t confirm the girl was able to see her father again. Whatever happened, I know I\u2019ll carry this moment with me for the rest of my life.\n            <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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